Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quotation

A paintings is not completely finished until the artist has separated the spirit from body . — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Grant Wood Quote

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. — Grant Wood

Man Ray Quote

All critics should be assassinated. — Man Ray

Jan van Eyck, Early Northern Renaissance Flemish Painter, founder of the Bruges school

Only nine Jan Van Eyck signed and dated paintings are know to exist.  

Rogier Van der Weyden

The Annunciation, oil on panel — circa 1440, Musée du Louvre, ParisRogier van der Weyden’s early training was in the workshop of the town goldsmith. Although it is not known if he ever actually worked in the trade. Approaching thirty, he began…more here

Matthias Grünewald, Flemish Painter of the Gothic Era

He was perhaps the greatest German Northern Renaissance Painter of his time. ‘The Dead Lovers’ shown above is one of his most disturbing works….and perhaps his best.

Grünewald lived during troubled and restless times. The world was in transition. The old medieval order imposed by the Church was buckling under the expansion of towns, the rise of the merchant class, the emergence of national states, the spread of religious reform and invention of the printing press. People were becoming fascinated with science…..more here